Point Lookout Lighthouse

 lighthouse, interesting place, haunted house / building

Historical Lighthouse, no longer in service.

For 136 years, the Point lookout Lighthouse helped generations of Chesapeake Bay mariners avoid shoals, navigate through dense fog, and find the Potomac River’s mouth. The beam shone until 1966, when an automated light off Point Lookout assumed the job of the original wood-and-masonry lighthouse.

The lighthouse is considered a hotbed of paranormal activity and has been the subject of several investigations over the years.

A popular theory is that the structure acted as a psychic sponge that drew in the collective suffering and misery from the tens of thousands of Confederate POWs and wounded Union soldiers who languished nearby during the Civil War.

Unexplained noises, disembodied voices and apparitions have been recorded in the basement and the main floor.

More at www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=1004